Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 22:56:07 +0000 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> To: James Raynard <fports@jraynard.demon.co.uk>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Master site question Message-ID: <3464EE07.711C879C@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> References: <19971108164251.04348@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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James Raynard wrote: > Greetings. I've almost completed a port of SFIO (an improved stdio), > but have come across a problem with MASTER_SITE. The tarball is > available from http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio/, but cannot > be fetched automatically, as the user is required to give their name > and email address before they can download it. > > Are there any other ports in a similar situation? The "obvious" > solution is to override do-fetch and print out a message asking the > user to fetch the source by hand, but I just wondered if there was > a better solution. > Ideal is some stuff, writeln on expert. And yet another problem: fetch don't understood http, when exists programms, aviable only via http. > -- > James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. > james@jraynard.demon.co.uk > http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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